Camera Obscura have announced that their fourth album, My Maudlin Career, will be out on April 20th (21st in the US) on 4AD — which came as a surprise to me because honestly, I didn’t realize that that label still put out new music.
“My Maudlin Life”, the song, is streaming off their MySpace page right now (as well as supposedly being available for download off their web page), and sounds pretty good. Maybe a bit sonically denser than their previous material? But with that same delicate melancholy that we all know and love. I do hope that lead single “French Navy” will be a bit peppier, though.
I actually never really got into their last album, Let’s Get Out of This Country
Pat said
That track sounds really good, they were going for that phil spector girl group thing with “lets get out of this country” and its like they are taking it farther back, its really dirty sounding. BTW, the title track off “lets get out” is so good, that album is worth revisiting!
Mr. Furley said
Yeah, agreed. I think I just wasn’t in the mood when Let’s Get Out came out, something I sort of realized at the time. I listened to it a couple times today, and it’s really quite good.